1999 Khulna mosque bombing
Bomb attack in Khulna
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The 1999 Khulna mosque bombing was a terrorist bomb attack on an Ahmadiyya mosque in Khulna, Bangladesh, on 8 October 1999. In the explosion, 8 people died and around 30 were injured.[1][2] On 10 October 1999, the Bangladesh Army removed a time bomb from the headquarters complex of the Ahmadiyya mission in Dhaka, three days after the bombing. Two days after a bomb was recovered from the Jannatul Ferdous Ahmadiya mosque in Mirpur, Dhaka.[3][4]
LocationKhulna, Bangladesh
Date8 October 1999 (UTC+06:00)
TargetAhmadiyya
Attack type
Mass murder; bomb attack; terrorism| 1999 Khulna mosque bombing | |
|---|---|
| Location | Khulna, Bangladesh |
| Date | 8 October 1999 (UTC+06:00) |
| Target | Ahmadiyya |
Attack type | Mass murder; bomb attack; terrorism |
| Deaths | 8 |
| Injured | 30 |
| Perpetrators | Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami |
Background
The Ahmadiyya are a small sect of Islam whom many conservative Muslims consider heretical. There are about 100,000 Ahmadi Muslims in Bangladesh, where 90 percent of the population follow other sects of Islam.[5]
